Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-11-24
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Matches should always be kept in
stone or earthen jar, or in tin.
Onions may be prepared without
the usual accompaniment of tears by
peeling them with the hands under
water.
Never, never, never punish or in
flict pain on a child because you are
angry at what it has done, unless you
really desire to assault Our Father
Who art in Heaven.-Pomeroy's Ad-
canoe Thought.
Fine manure for crops is more val
liable than coarse. Hens can break up
manure better perhaps than any of the
machines invented for the purpose.
Scatter some wheat over the pile and
turn them on.-St. Louis Republican.
How to prevent stone from decay
ing: The decay of stone. either in
buildings or monuments, may be ar
rested by heating and treating with
paraffine mixed with little creosote.
A common paint burner may be
used to heat the stone.
Cement floors are not rat proof
unless pounded glass be mixed with
the cement before the laying of the
floor. The ordinary glass Stag from
glass factories is excellent for the pur-
pose. and will cost but little, as it is
usually thrown away as refuse.-In-
didnapolis Sentinel.
The practice of mixing the morn
ing's and nights milk is detrimental.
rs it often causes rapid change. 1t
would be better. if not too imprac-
ticable, to keep each cows milk sep
arate, but, as this is laborious, the
milk of one milking should at least be
kept from that of another.
DR.. Burner writes to the Drug
Neacs that if vines be watered with IA
decOction of bitter plants, such as
NORWOOD. worms will be unable to
live upon them. The use of quassia
wood, he says, kills all insects and
worms. In Smyrna. where quassia
trees grow, no birds live in them. and
neither insects nor worms are found ut
their roots. The method is neither ex-
pensive nor laborious.
-Delmonico pudding.-Three table
spoonfuls corn starch, one quart boil
ing milk, three eggs, whites and yelks
separates; mix yelks with corn starch.
and add the milk gradually; let it boil.
Beat whites to stiff froth, add to it one
tablespoon heaping full of white sugar
Put corn starch while hot in pudding
dish. cover with frOsting and set in
the oven to brown. To be eaten cold
with sweetened cream. 1t il delicious.
Toledo Blade.
Our orchards generally produce
full crops only every other year. This
is because the full crop of one year so
exhausts the fruit producing qualities
of the soil that it is not able to pro-
duce full crop the next year. Give
it a good supply of the proper kind of
manure and thus made up for the loss
of the fruit-producing qualities of the
soil and you may expect good crops
every year provided you treat your
trees properly IN other reSpectS.-ln-
diandpolis Sentinel.
Salmon Comprehension one-halt
pint of milk, thicken it with a table
spoonful of flour and let it become
cold. Mince the meat of a one-pound
can of salmon. or one pound of fresh
salmon; when very fine add a salt
spoonful of white pepper. Moisten
the salmon, mince with the thickened
milk and work the whole to a paste,
add very little of the bread crumbs if
too thin. let it become amalgamated
over the range and place it in the ice
box until wanted; then shape it into
neat rolls or cones. dip them in egg
and crumbs and fry in plenty of hot
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